How to Use barbarous in a Sentence

barbarous

adjective

• These barbarous acts must end and those at the helm must be held accountable.
  — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 20 June 2018
• On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the Whites ... have still something eminent about them.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• With the help of the Russians, the Iranians have enabled the barbarous Assad regime to prevail in Syria’s civil war.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
• Saudi Arabia, like most of the world’s barbarous regimes, looked at the 2022 World Cup—held in Qatar, another repressive state—and saw a massive success.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
• Three days after a barbarous playground attack left the lakeside town in grief and shock, and in an amphitheater facing the public park where the tragedy occurred, the Annecy Intl.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 11 June 2023
• Each new invention of war has been assailed and denounced as barbarous and anti-Christian.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• Each new invention of war has been assailed and denounced as barbarous and anti-Christian.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• But the barbarous details of Romina’s death spread quickly, moving the needle of outrage and change toward protecting the lives of women and children.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2020
• Bentivegna has assembled a vibrant cast that captures the sheer barbarous nature of the play with a passion that whirls into a frenzy.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Many Shia volunteers died delivering Sunnis from the barbarous rule of IS.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• In addition, several aspects of the story were updated to avoid the barbarous, hook-nosed stereotypes of the original.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• Alyokhina writes frankly about the barbarous conditions and treatment in a prison system deemed by human rights groups, including Amnesty International, as one of the worst in the world.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• There are many expenses necessary in a civilized country for which there is no occasion in one that is barbarous.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Yet, Stowe takes her pains to emphasize that barbarous black characters (Sambo, Quimbo, Topsy) and white slave-traders alike are corrupted by the system.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 14 June 2021
• Coach Tom Herman sent forth Buechele and Ehlinger to battle in the circle drill, a barbarous exercise typically off limits to quarterbacks.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2018
• And, as all the world knows, Germany murdered 12 million people in death camps and conducted the most barbarous war in history in Russia, against a country and a regime that reciprocated Nazi savagery.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 27 Sep. 2017
• The resonance and immediacy of these barbarous 19th-century events are testament to Zhang’s storytelling powers, and should stand as a warning to all of us.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
• To keep civilization going — and to keep barbarous forces in check — requires constant attention, or, to borrow a phrase, eternal vigilance.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Aug. 2017
• The retired brigadier general, said to be suffering from dementia, spent the last several years of his life consumed by legal battles stemming from his short but barbarous reign as the country’s leader.
  — John Otis, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
• Iconic images of the accused being burned alive were deployed in the propaganda wars that cast the Black struggle, depending on the teller, as either barbarous or suffused with its own fearsome justice.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• The international community cannot either forget about that or allow such barbarous crimes to be committed again in the future.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• With an increasingly literate society in England and widespread books and newspapers, for the first time the majority of Britons become aware of the barbarous practices taking place in the middle of the Atlantic, Walvin says.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 June 2020
• The difference between early colonial law and British law is made clear in the prohibition on the one hand of bodily punishments that are inhumane, barbarous, or cruel, and on the other hand, the sort of death that would be suffered by Peters.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• People dismiss gold as a barbarous relic and governments de-emphasize its importance as a relic.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• His prose is prose, definitively prose, anti-felicitous and slightly barbarous.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
• Historically, in western cultures, with some notable exceptions, suicide cases were treated with at best disdain and at worst barbarous practices.
  — Simon Harold Walker, Time, 6 Sep. 2019
• And the pagan warriors’ attacks on Christian monasteries no doubt cemented their barbarous reputation.
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2021
• Just look at the reaction to President Trump’s barbarous policy of taking children away from their parents as punishment for the misdemeanor offense of illegally entering the country.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• The practice reached Britain and North America early in the 18th century, but many established medical authorities were skeptical that what were seen as barbarous peoples could contribute anything to medical knowledge.
  — Jon Meacham, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• Nevertheless, this is where Democratic extremism has taken the party, and this foolhardy vote tonight will do Americans the favor of exposing exactly how committed national Democrats are to this barbarous position.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024